cheiragōgos

Strong’sG5497

one who leads a helpless person by the hand

stem cheiragōg-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

* χειρ-αγωγός, -όν

(< χείρ, ἄγω)

leading by the hand. As subst., ὁ χ., one to lead by the head, a guide: Ac 13:11.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G5497 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidkhi-rag-o-gos'

a hand-leader, i.e. personal conductor (of a blind person)

Fromfrom G5495 and a reduplicated form of G71;

King Jamessome to lead by the hand.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

χειρᾰγωγ-ός, όν,
leading, guiding, χ. ἀρχή Refs
2 substantive, leader, guide, ἔχει.. χ. τὸν πλοῦτον ὁ γέρων NT+4th c.BC+; θεοῖς ἕπεσθαι χειραγωγοῖς ἡγούμενοι Refs 4th c.AD+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

someone to lead … bythe hand1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	cheiragōgos	cheiragōgois
object accusative	cheiragōgon	cheiragōgoin1×χειραγωγούς
direct address vocative	cheiragōgor	cheiragōgoir
of, belonging to genitive	cheiragōgou	cheiragōgoiu
to, for dative	cheiragōgo	cheiragōgoi

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

cheiragōgstem+ogender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

cheiragōgo is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Words built on the same stem

Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.

cheiragōgamō — χειραγωγέω, I lead by the hand

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

cheiragōgoin“someone to lead … bythe hand”objectaccusative plural1×

Acts 13:11… achluas kai skotem, kai periagarōntos zētate cheiragōgoin.… him, and he groped about, seeking someone to lead him by the hand.